Surprising Tool Makeup Artists Love: Pill Boxes

I was emailing with Carmindy--the lovely makeup artist you might recognize from "What Not To Wear"--and she reminded me of this nifty little use for those divided plastic pill boxes you've probably seen in the drugstore.

Here's a pill box I found on Amazon for $3; most people use these to keep track of their medications and vitamins each day of the week.

What Carmindy does, though, is scoop half-used lipsticks out of their tubes and mush them into the compartments of the pill box. So smart! This way, you never waste the last bit of lipstick, plus, you gradually create your own custom lip palette--with no "dud" shades. You can mix a few shades together to create a new one, or fill in one square with petroleum jelly to turn any old shade into a fun new gloss, Carmindy says.

How do you guys deal when your favorite lipstick starts to get stubby or when the tip breaks off? Do you perform emergency measures to save it or just sigh and chuck it?